Ithaca Energy has appointed Roy Buchan as its Chief Operations Officer, starting 5 January 2015, and announced that Chief Development Officer John Woods is to leave the company on 31 January. The move comes as Ithaca nears first production…
Swedish exploration and production firm Lundin Petroleum says it has made a sub-commercial discovery on the Storm prospect, offshore Norway. The Storm wildcat well 33/2-1 on production license 555 was drilled 200km northwest of Florø…
The two compression modules on board of FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba MV24 have been successfully commissioned for MODEC. The high pressure modules, developed by MAN Diesel &Turbo (MDT) in Switzerland, will maintain field pressure thus maximizing oil production…
Hess’s Australian subsidiary, Hess Exploration Australia Pty Ltd. and the North West Shelf (NWS) signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) for Hess to develop its natural gas discoveries in its deepwater permits offshore northwestern Australia…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) granted operator Statoil consent to use the Scarabeo 5 mobile drilling facility to plug well 6406/2-R-4 BHT2 permanently and simultaneously drill a new production well, designated 6406/2-R-4-CH…
EXMAR is ordering its second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit from China’s Wison Offshore & Marine. Wison's yard. From Wison. Wison will be responsible for the turnkey engineering…
BP and the state oil company of the Republic of Azerbaijan, SOCAR signed a production sharing agreement (PSA) for the exploration and development of the potential prospects in the shallow water area around the Absheron Peninsula located in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea…
The Neon Energy board is moving forward with the “superior proposal” from Evoworld and calling off its merger plans with MEO Australia. Image from Neon. Neon entered into a bid implementation agreement (BIA) with Evoworld on 19 December…
Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam (DSR), part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC), has been awarded an engineering, procurement and commissoining contract contract by Petrojarl I for the upgrade of its FPSO Petrojarl I. The Petrojarl I (pictured) is a Teekay Petrojarl-managed FPSO…
Forum Energy Technologies subsidiary Sub-Atlantic has secured three international contracts with a combined value of over £3.5 million for the manufacture of three specialist remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The firm will provide IKM Subsea in Norway…
Alexandra Pate, a Robert Gordon University student, has won a competition to design the trophy for the 2015 Offshore Achievement Awards (OAA), taking place in March. The brief was to design a trophy which encompassed the key themes of the OAA…
Subsea well intervention activities are expected to flourish over the next five years, predicts analysts Douglas Westwood. Despite the recent plunge in oil price, the firm says it expects the global subsea wellstock to increase over the period by 41%…
Hungarian integrated oil and gas firm MOL Group has completed an acquisition of North Sea assets from London-listed Premier Oil. MOL acquired non-operated interests in the Nexen-operated Scott (21.84%), Telford (1.59%) and Rochelle (15%) fields…
Aberdeen City Council has called for a summit, bringing together governments, trade unions and industry bodies, to see if there are way to save jobs in the city. The industry has seen a tide of cut backs and redundancies in the facing of the plummeting oil price…
Offshore Ireland focused exploration firm Providence Resources has confirmed that it has received a judgement in its favor in a ruling over costs Transocean was claiming against it. The case related to cost claims made by Transocean…